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...Having observed people with intense and painful problems makes it difficult for Datar to identify with her peers’ stress over what she now views as petty, she says.A Common Problem?The alienation of returning to Harvard is widespread enough that the Office of International Programs (OIP) provides support for students on its website. “Re-entry can for some people be more difficult than the culture shock that they experienced when they went abroad. People returning from abroad can feel disoriented and startled by their perceptions of their own culture,” the website reads...
...English at a level and quality consistent with our standards.” The program lasts from June 18 to July 29 and costs $5,500. For Harvard College students, the program counts for two half-courses credits. Financial aid is available through the Harvard Office of International Programs (OIP...
...Harvard Summer School, in collaboration with the Office of International Programs (OIP), has branched out far and wide across the globe with its summer study abroad offerings. Fourteen programs, all of which are taught by the Harvard faculty, are being offered this year in locations such as Paris, Beijing, Oxford, and Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Venice will be the home of program offerings in economics and environmental science, while previously neglected science concentrators can head to Bonn to conduct life sciences research under the tutelage of Harvard faculty. We applaud the College for making progress in increasing not only the number...
...period have to take their finals in their host country. This means that students whose spring semesters abroad begin in January have to take their Harvard fall term exams in their new home—just days or weeks after arriving.“The Office of International Programs [OIP] believes that this issue could actually cause students to choose not to study abroad,” Kane said in an interview yesterday. “It’s been a problem for a while.”But starting next fall, professors will be allowed to provide...
...have been yearning to stargaze in the southern hemisphere, work in a lab in East Asia, or do cross-cultural research in Cape Town, a new initiative at Harvard may be the answer. On Nov. 27, the Faculty Committee on Education Abroad and the Office of International Programs (OIP) announced the start of a new study-abroad program—a fund that will allow professors who have designed undergraduate excursions into the outside world to realize their plans. For the Faculty Innovation Fund Grant, professors from a variety of disciplines were challenged to devise trips abroad for students...